Several belong to a generation whose members grew up alongside Kagame in western Uganda served as young men in Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA) in the 1970s and 1980s joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) when it was secretly established in Kampala and invaded Rwanda in 1990 to topple Juvénal Habyarimana...
Hard questions are being asked about the future of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) the second biggest opposition party after Bobi Wine's National Unity Platform (NUP) after accusations that it received billions of shillings from President Yoweri Museveni ahead of the 2021 elections caused deep splits...
President comes out as a Mao-ist A meticulously curated political rally in Gulu northern Uganda in July reveals the strategy President Yoweri Museveni is devising for the 2026 general election according to analysts in Kampala...
Vol 64 No 17 |
- EAST AFRICA
This row in Nairobi is being turbo-charged by a parallel clash in Kampala between President Yoweri Museveni's government and the World Bank which has suspended project finance to Uganda in response draconian anti-gay laws going through parliament...
8m in foreign grants and loans – 21% of the proposed budget – are optimistic given the donor anger and threats of sanctions following President Yoweri Museveni's recent signing of new anti-homosexuality legislation...
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President Yoweri Museveni put the number of Ugandan dead at 54 including a commander...
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Vol 64 No 10 |
- GHANA
- UGANDA
Weeks after Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo played down the prospects of his approving a draconian anti-homosexuality bill Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni had appeared to be following similar tactics by calling for parliament's original draft of the bill to be revised...
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Public commentary on Muhoozi has been held back by President Yoweri Museveni's ban on discussion of the succession outside the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) yet it doesn't restrain his son's ambitions...
'The general' meant Caleb Akandwanaho aka Salim Saleh President Yoweri Museveni's brother and a key figure in the government one of whose current titles is Chief Co-ordinator of Operation Wealth Creation a programme launched by the President in 2013 to add value to agricultural smallholders' output...
President Yoweri Museveni reportedly met Boeing executives in Chicago when he was in the United States for the December African Leaders' Summit with President Joe Biden and enquired about the Boeing 737 Max model...
Making the case for the revival of the flag carrier President Yoweri Museveni claimed in 2016 it would retain in-country the $420m that Ugandans spend on air travel with foreign owned aircraft annually...